Friday, March 16, 2007

Rainbow Penguins?

My sister Mary in Galveston, TX tells me that on a recent visit to Moody Gardens "we queried a docents about 2 emperor penguins which were jealously guarding something behind a fence. She told us that they had an egg, but that both had been examined twice and are males so they can't figure out where they got the egg. However, as they are both claiming parental rights, the keepers are letting them keep it and are anticipating they will raise it together."

The Central Park Zoo had a famous gay penguin couple, Silo and Roy, who were together 6 years. The New York Times reported that the girl penguinlet raised by Silo & Roy is currenly shacked up with a chick...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sharon , you never mentioned your sister lives here . Wallace's owners .

Sharon Rose said...

Whoops! Thought I had - will send more info in a private email.